Book Description

This easy-to-follow introduction guide brings together all of the knowledge required to build a successful Virtual Desktop project that is secure, scalable, and highly available.

Through the course of this book, you will quickly progress from your first VDI lab environment to setting up a production-ready infrastructure that is robust, secure, and easy to manage. Going further, you will learn how to tune and maintain VDI once it is in production. Providing access for remote workers via any supported device and use of certificates is another important aspect covered in the book. If users depend on VDI, then it must be more resilient; you will learn that this can be done by addressing each of the roles of the VDI infrastructure.

You will also understand the wider aspects of Windows Server and the associated tools required for a complete production solution, such as Hyper-V, certificates, and Active Directory, making this book a one-stop reference guide for a complete project.

What You Will Learn

Explore the various server roles and features that provide Microsoft's VDI solution

Virtualize desktops and the other infrastructure servers required for VDI using server virtualization in Windows Server Hyper-V

Build high availability clusters for VDI with techniques such as failover clustering and load balancing

Provide secure VDI to remote users over the Internet

Use Microsoft's Deployment Toolkit and Windows Server Update Services to automate the creation and maintenance of virtual desktops

Carry out performance tuning and monitoring

Understand the complexities of VDI licensing irrespective of the VDI solution you have opted for

Deploy PowerShell to automate all of the above techniques

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